Nanci Griffith - Nickel Dreams lyrics

A little girl dreamer ribbons and long curls
Reflections of yesterdays past
Headlines and footlights
Wee hours and long nights
Keep everything moving so fast

It's taken a long time
And she's walked a fine line
For fortune and fame have arrived
She kept on striving and half-way surviving
Till part of those dreams came alive

Now she wishes she looked like they tell
Her she looks all the time
What she'd give just to feel like she
Tells them she's feelin' just fine
All that money she makes every night
Ain't as much as it seems
Cuz it's a dollar a wrinkle and
Less than a nickel a dream

Well, her heart may be breaking
But she keeps on taking what she
Thought she wanted back then
It's too late to change her
There's always a stranger to tell
Her she's someone again

Now she wishes she looked like they tell
Her she looks all the time
What she'd give just to feel like she
Tells them she's feelin' just fine
All that money she makes every night
Ain't as much as it seems
Cuz it's a dollar a wrinkle and
Less than a nickel a dream